Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

A globe is a model of planet Earth, showing how it looks from space. This one shows all the countries of the world, almost 200, including the UK. It shows all seven continents, Europe, Africa ...

But are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe ... recently published a study in the journal Geology showing that Iceland, too, has heavily stretched toffee ...

potentially redefining continental drift and global maps. A new study by Dr. Jordan Phethean, leader at the University of Derby, suggests that Earth has only six continents and not seven as ...